David Landy

Welcome to my website! I'm currently employed as post-doctoral researcher working with John Humble and Brian Ross--err, I mean John Hummel and Brain Ross--at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I earned my Ph.D. in August, 2007 from Indiana University, with a joint degree in computer science and cognitive science. If you want to know more about my professional life, read my CV.

Selected Publications

• Goldstone, R. L., Landy, D., Son, J. Y. (2008). A well-grounded education: The role of perception in science and mathematics. In A. Glenberg, M. DeVega, & A. Graesser (Eds.), Proceedings of the Garachico Workshop on Symbols, Embodiment and Meaning, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife.


• Landy, D., Goldstone, R. L. (2007). Formal notations are diagrams: evidence from a production task. Memory and Cognition, 35(8).


• Goldstone, R. L., Gerganov, A., Landy, D., & Roberts, M. E. (2007). Learning to see and conceive. In L. Tommasi, M. Peterson, & L. Nadel (Eds.) The New Cognitive Sciences (part of the Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.


• Landy, D., Goldstone, R. L. (2007). How abstract is symbolic thought? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33(4), 720-733.


• Goldstone, R. L., Landy, D, Son, J. (2007). A well-grounded education: The role of perception in science and mathematics. The Proceedings of the Garachico Workshop: Symbols, Embodiment and Meaning.


• Landy, D., Goldstone, R. L.(2005). How we learn about things we don't already understand. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 17, 343-369.


• Landy, D. (2005). Inside Doubt: On the non-identity of the theory of mind and propositional attitude psychology. Minds and Machines, 15(3-4), 399-414.

Selected Presentations

• Hummel, J. E., Landy, D., & Devnich, D. (2008). Toward a process model of explanation with implications for the type-token problem. AAAI Fall Symposium on Naturally-Inspired Artificial Intelligence. Arlington, VA.

• Landy, D., Jones, E., & Hummel, J. E. (2008). Why spatial-numeric associations aren't evidence for a mental number line. The 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Washington, D.C.


• Landy, D., Jones, M. N., & Goldstone, R. L. (2008). How the appearance of an operator affects its mathematical precedence. The 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Washington, D.C.


• Landy, D. & Goldstone, R. L. (2007). Grounding Symbol Structures in Space: Formal Notations as Diagrams. The 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Nashville, TN. (winner of the Marr Prize for best student submission)


• Landy, D. & Goldstone, R. L. (2007). How Space Guides Interpretation of a Novel Mathematical System. The 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Nashville, TN.
  


• Landy, D. & Goldstone, R. L. (2007). The Alignment of Ordering and Space in Arithmetic Computation. The 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Nashville, TN.


• Landy, D., Allen, C. & Zednik, C. (2007). A Perceptual Account of Symbolic Reasoning. Poster presented at The 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Toronto, ON.


• Landy, D. & Goldstone, R. L. (2006, October). Perceptual grouping in mathematical reasoning. The Annual Conference of the Psychonomic Society, Houston, Texas.


• Landy, D. (2006, July). Hunting the SNARC in its natural habitat: Evidence for a cognitive number line in an equation-writing task, Poster presented at The 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, Canada.


• Landy, D. & Goldstone, R. L. (2006, August). A perceptually-driven process model of algebraic validity judgments. The Annual Conference of the Society for Mathematical Psychology, Vancouver, Canada.


• Landy, D. (2004). Recurrent Representation Reinterpreted. The AAAI Fall Symposium on Connectionism and Compositionality, Arlington, VA.
  

Contact

David Landy Department of Psychology 603 E. Daniel St. Champaign, IL 61820	phone (812) 336-4449 fax (217) 244-5876 email dlandy@illinois.edu